Sorbianize

present singular third person Sorbianizes · participle present Sorbianizing · participle past Sorbianized · past Sorbianized · alternative US sorbianize · alternative UK Sorbianise · alternative UK sorbianise

1. to give a Sorbian character to
   1. transitiveto give an Upper Sorbian character to

      The 1948–1952 linguistic reforms secured the unification of Upper Sorbian and encouraged the use of this variety at the expense of increasingly neglected Lower Sorbian, which also became Upper Sorbianized much to the dislike of Lower Sorbian-speakers.

      2008, Tomasz Kamusella, The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 306

   2. transitiveto give a Lower Sorbian character to
2. to adopt Sorbian customs or culture
   1. intransitiveto adopt Upper Sorbian customs or culture
   2. intransitiveto adopt Lower Sorbian customs or culture